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Unire@ States Arena" F FICE e SAMUEL RITGHIE, OF lVAUSAU, WISCONSIN.

RAIL VAY-SWITCH.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 320,397, dated June 16, 1885.

Application filed April 20, 1885.

To all whom lit ymay concern:

Be it known that 1, SAMUEL Rrrcnin, of Vausan, in the county of Marat-hon, and in the State of Viseonsin, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Railway- Switches, and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof.

My invention relates to railway-switches, and will be fully described hereinafter.

In the drawings, Figure lA is a plan view showing one application of my device. Fig. 2 is a like view showing another application ofthe saine; and Fig. 3 is a section on line .r a, Fig. 2.

ln Fig. l, A A A2 are the rails ofthe stationary portion of the main track, and B is the movable portion. G C C are the switch-rails. At the intersection of the lines of the rails A A C C is placed a turn-table, D, carrying a single rail, D, and this is connected with a shaft, E, by a lever, F, that is pivoted to a tie at F', so that when the track B is shifted by means of the shaft Il the turn-table will be shifted with it.

In Fig. l the inain track is shown as open in full lines, while the dotted lines show the (No model.)

' position ofthe parts when the switch is open and the main track closed.

In Fig. 2 several tracks are shown as connected by my device. The turn-table differs from that shown in Fig. l only in having two rails instead of one, and as the tracks in Fig. 2 are all fixed the turntable is operated by a lever, G, and locked by an ordinary hasp and staple. My device does away with the necessity of frogs and greatly facilitates the work of switching trains.

' Having thus fully described niy invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The combination, with the intersecting rails, of a turn-table, switching rail or rails carried thereby, a lever, F, and shifting-shaft, as set forth. Y

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand, at Wausau, in the county of Marathon and State of lNrisconsin, in the presence of two witnesses.

SAMUEL RITCHIE.

Witnesses Guns. V. BARDEEN, W. H. MYLREA. 

